Jungle Tactics and Harness Badge Adopted by Troopers
The command includes plans to devise effective jungle tactics while noting the rope worn as a harness for fording streams has become the brigade badge since every trooper uses one. CAP Wirephoto.
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1968
Page
21
The command includes plans to devise effective jungle tactics while noting the rope worn as a harness for fording streams has become the brigade badge since every trooper uses one. CAP Wirephoto.
In Vietnam a living legend Col. Henry Emerson, known as Hank, led the 1st Brigade of the 9th Infantry in the Mekong Delta. Wounded in a helicopter crash, Emerson reflected on his career, his future role, and the 4,000 men he trained, while visiting hospital comrades including Gen. Creighton Abrams. The incident earned him a Purple Heart as Hunt, the copilot, died.
Los Angeles AP reports a night demonstration of robot crawlers called CRABS or Crawling Robot Attack Beds. Eight legged, 100 pound class machines mounted with machine guns form cross fire around an enemy camp, reportedly wiping out a target with zero human casualties. The piece links this to space tech, noting Aerojet design work on legged chairs and mobile devices for invalids, including cost 3700 to 5000 dollars and potential home-care savings.
The Rev. Bennett G. Murray, pastor near Hancock and at Sharpsburg, attended the Billy Graham School of Evangelism in Pittsburgh, Pa, from Sept 2 to Sept 0, receiving a scholarship there funded by the Billy Graham Association.
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